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3j Ibs., out of a loch "with lightning 

 playing all over the water." 



Mr. Roit on This practically concludes the evidence 

 ?oac ngand touching thunder, though Mr. Rolt re- 

 calls fishing in a thunderstorm for gray- 

 ling, without any result beyond catching 

 several brace of trout, which were, of 

 course, returned to the water. He adds 

 that roach seem to decline a bait when a 

 storm is brewing, or even when it is 

 raging, but that they soon recover their 

 appetites and bite ravenously as soon as 

 it is over. 



Sir HenryPottinger condemns thunder, 

 as he did east wind, in general terms, and 

 the fact of so much of his fishing having 

 been done in Norway lends special interest 

 to his attitude in view of Mr. Bryden's 

 Norwegian experience just quoted. 

 sir Henry " I have," he writes, " no hesitation in 



saying that almost invariably thunder, 

 especially when accompanied by vivid 

 lightning, is the fisherman's enemy. 

 Friends have indeed told me that they 

 have taken fish right through a thunder- 



